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Full-Text Articles in African American Studies
Reclaiming Public Space: How Black Portlanders Transformed Irving Park, 1960s-1980s, Ana Bane
Reclaiming Public Space: How Black Portlanders Transformed Irving Park, 1960s-1980s, Ana Bane
University Honors Theses
Although we often take their existence for granted, public parks are imperative for the vitality of a functioning democratic society. Parks are more than just sites for recreation–an important arena for community building in its own right; occupying public space is an inherently political act that takes on new dimensions in resistance movements. This project explores the role that public space played in the history of Black community organizing and resistance in Portland. Irving Park is a sixteen acre park in the heart of the Albina district, Portland’s historic African American neighborhood. Though the area is now heavily gentrified, from …
Myths, Museums, Mothers, And The Power Of Letitia Carson, Hailey Brink
Myths, Museums, Mothers, And The Power Of Letitia Carson, Hailey Brink
University Honors Theses
Letitia Carson was a trailblazing Black Oregon pioneer woman whose life offered remarkable and unprecedented departures from the white pioneer status quo. Letitia's story presents numerous points at which she could be heralded for her successes; her pregnant journey across the Overland Trail, giving birth in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, cultivating and maintaining two separate homesteads, challenging and conquering two lawsuits against administrator Greenberry Smith, her midwifery and community involvement, and lastly, becoming the first Black woman to own land in Oregon in 1862. And yet, her story fell to obscurity, only to be revived nearly a century …
Letitia Carson In Court: African American Women, Property, And Wages In The Pacific Northwest, Stephanie Marie Vallance
Letitia Carson In Court: African American Women, Property, And Wages In The Pacific Northwest, Stephanie Marie Vallance
Dissertations and Theses
Letitia Carson arrived in Oregon from Missouri in 1845, accompanied by David Carson and their newborn child, a daughter named Martha. The Carsons settled in the Soap Creek Valley and took advantage of Oregon's Provisional Government's donation land claim program, living on 640 acres in the newly formed Benton County with Martha and a second child, a son named Adam, born a few years after arriving in Oregon. Within ten years, however, David would be dead and Letitia would be dispossessed of all property and belongings. A former slave, Letitia had little social standing in the new territory and no …
Blacks In Oregon, Darrell Millner
Blacks In Oregon, Darrell Millner
Black Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
Periodically, newspaper or magazine articles appear proclaiming amazement at how white the population of Oregon and the City of Portland is compared to other parts of the country. It is not possible to argue with the figures—in 2017, there were an estimated 91,000 Blacks in Oregon, about 2 percent of the population—but it is a profound mistake to think that these stories and statistics tell the story of the state's racial past. In fact, issues of race and the status and circumstances of Black life in Oregon are central to understanding the history of the state, and perhaps its future …
Radicalism In American Political Thought : Black Power, The Black Panthers, And The American Creed, Christopher Thomas Cooney
Radicalism In American Political Thought : Black Power, The Black Panthers, And The American Creed, Christopher Thomas Cooney
Dissertations and Theses
American Political Thought has presented somewhat of a challenge to many because of the conflict between the ideals found within the "American Creed" and the reality of America's treatment of ethnic and social minorities. The various forms of marginalization and oppression facing women, blacks, Native Americans, and Asian-Americans have been as much a part of the story of America as have been natural rights and the Constitution.
Taking this into account, this thesis is an effort to argue that the radicalism on display in the Black Panther Party, a group that emerged in the turmoil of the 1960' s, was …
York Of The Corps Of Discovery, Darrell Millner
York Of The Corps Of Discovery, Darrell Millner
Black Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
Assesses the scholarship dealing with York, William Clark's slave, who was a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Two schools of writing developed regarding York. The "Sambo" school dominated his depiction for almost two centuries and publications at the turn of the 21st century still saw York in racist terms, as a slave grateful for his status. At the other extreme is the "superhero" school that describes York in heroic terms, rescuing Clark from peril, fluent in French, tall in height. Both schools are grounded in stereotypes and poor scholarship. The best source for establishing a historically accurate York …
Book Review Of, Obed Dickinson's War Against Sin In Salem, 1853-1867, Darrell Millner
Book Review Of, Obed Dickinson's War Against Sin In Salem, 1853-1867, Darrell Millner
Black Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
Reviews the book, "Obed Dickinson's War against Sin in Salem, 1853-1867" by Egbert S. Oliver
George Bush Of Tumwater: Founder Of The First American Colony On Puget Sound, Darrell Millner
George Bush Of Tumwater: Founder Of The First American Colony On Puget Sound, Darrell Millner
Black Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
A biography of pioneer George Washington Bush is presented. A free mulatto, information on Bush's childhood and birth date are uncertain. Believed to have been raised in Pennsylvania and educated under Quaker influence, Bush was literate and worked in the cattle business before moving to Oregon with his wife and children in 1844. Bush encountered various forms of racism, but was not deterred by pioneer life and by 1850 the family farm in the Tumwater, Washington area was thriving.
Book Review Of, The Invisible Empire In The West: Toward A New Historical Appraisal Of The Ku Klux Klan Of The 1920s, Darrell Millner
Book Review Of, The Invisible Empire In The West: Toward A New Historical Appraisal Of The Ku Klux Klan Of The 1920s, Darrell Millner
Black Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
Reviews the book "The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s" by Shawn Lay
Book Review Of, As The Wind Rocks The Wagon, Darrell Millner
Book Review Of, As The Wind Rocks The Wagon, Darrell Millner
Black Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
Reviews the book, "As the Wind Rocks the Wagon" by Amy Warner
"Black Studies Center Public Dialogue, Part 2", Portland State University, Toni Morrison, Primus St. John, John Callahan, Susan Callahan, Lloyd Baker
"Black Studies Center Public Dialogue, Part 2", Portland State University, Toni Morrison, Primus St. John, John Callahan, Susan Callahan, Lloyd Baker
Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers
Panelists: novelist Toni Morrison (New York), Primus St. John (poet and Professor of English, Portland State University), John Callahan (Lewis & Clark College), Susan Kirshner Callahan (Lewis & Clark College), and Lloyd Baker (Portland State University student). Sponsored by the Portland State University Black Studies Center and the Oregon Committee for the Humanities.
"Address To Faculty And Students On The Black American", Nathan Hare
"Address To Faculty And Students On The Black American", Nathan Hare
Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers
Recorded in the Old Main (Lincoln Hall) auditorium at Portland State.
Culture Club, 1966-1967, Culture Club
Culture Club, 1965-1966 Draft, Culture Club
Culture Club, 1964-1965, Culture Club
Culture Club, 1963-1964, Culture Club
Culture Club, 1962-1963, Culture Club
Culture Club, 1961-1962, Culture Club
Culture Club, 1960-1961, Culture Club
Culture Club, 1959-1960, Culture Club
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Culture Club, 1957-1958, Culture Club
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Culture Club, 1955-1956, Culture Club
Culture Club, 1954-1955, Culture Club
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